On Aug. 4, 2020, SpaceX’s SN5 Starship prototype took a short, uncrewed hop that could end up leading to humanity’s next giant leap.
SN5 flew about 500 feet (150 meters) above SpaceX’s South Texas facilities, near the village of Boca Chica. It was the first-ever test flight for a full-size prototype of the company’s Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft. (The first flights overall for the Starship development line were made in 2019 by a small, stubby craft dubbed Starhopper.)
See some of the best photos of the landmark flight below.
Liftoff!
Not just up and down
500 feet high
Beauty shot
Coming down
Landing legs deployed
Touchdown
Source: Space.com